The loaf is not just bread, but a symbol of well-being and prosperity in the family. It is prepared for special occasions, so the decoration of the loaf should also correspond to the peculiarity of the moment. Usually loaves are decorated with viburnum berries and dough patterns. Below are examples of decorating these baked goods that can be used alone or in combination.
Instructions
Step 1
Braids. One of the easiest ways to decorate a loaf is to twist a dough braid around it. The braid is braided from three strips of dough. You can simplify this decoration a little and twist a cord from two strips of dough.
Step 2
Flowers. They can be as follows - lay them on the surface of the loaf with a ribbon of dough, and lay out the middle with raisins. Another way is to roll the dough into a small cake and cut lightly around the edges to form petals. You can lay out roses from the dough, it is laborious, but it looks very beautiful. For this, semicircles of different sizes are cut out of the rolled dough and laid out from the smaller petals in the center of the rose to the large ones at the edges.
Step 3
Leaves. The leaves are cut with a knife from the rolled dough. You can use a knife to draw a center line in them and stripes from it to the edges. Another option for decorating the leaves is to make small cuts along the edges of the leaves with a knife, when baked, you get hawthorn leaves. Sometimes oak leaves are cut from the dough.
Step 4
Spikelets. Simple spikelets do this - multidirectional cuts are made on both sides on a thin strip of dough. If you want more similarity, you can gently pull on each edge of the cut with your fingers.
Step 5
Birds. The bird's body is molded from dough. Then a cake is rolled out of a piece of dough, a wing of the desired shape or a tail is cut out, and a knife is passed over it several times, but not cut. The dough will be baked with stripes. You can make a swan in this way. A circle is cut out of the rolled dough, cut along the entire edge with a knife, cut in half. Wings are laid out from the halves of the circle, and the swan's neck can be laid out with a thin strip of dough.
Step 6
Angel. The angels' wings are cut out the same as those of birds, the head is cut out in the form of a circle, and the dress is cut out in the form of a triangle.
